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Schedule - Hardware

All deliverables are due no later than 5:00pm.

Milestone	Time Alotted	Due Date	Deliverable(s)
Implement four port hard-wired switch	2 weeks	Wed 14-Oct	Email summarizing your progress getting the tools set up: Simulation, Synthesis, and running tests on the hardware.
		Fri 16-Oct	Operational input arbiter (submit archive of project directory)
		9AM Friday 23-Oct	1. Working four-port non-learning switch (bit file and archive of project directory) 2. First version of the Hardware Design document (architecture) 3. Test summary
Implement IP router, software integration and testing of IP router	5 weeks	Wed 28-Oct	1. Implement basic packet counter registers 2. Add a written/drawn design of the Output Port Lookup module to your design document
		Wed 04-Nov	1. Verification section of the Hardware Design Document 2. Ability to forward packets to/from software 3. Verify and update TTL/IP checksum 4. HW+SW: Initial Proposal of Advanced Feature
		Wed 11-Nov	1. Verify the MAC address of all received packets 2. Lookup destination IP addresses in a lookup table. Forward matching packets to CPU instead of processing in normal forwarding path. 3. Interoperability testing section added to design document 4. HW+SW: Final Proposal of Advanced Feature
		Wed 18-Nov	1. Implement remaining functionality, including routing and ARP tables
		Wed 25-Nov	1. Email update on progress (1 for each team) 2. A tarball of your design (no dump files or packet_data directories please!).
Advanced Feature Development and Router Interoperation	2 weeks effective (*)	Wed 02-Dec	1. Email update on progress (1 for each team). 2. Updated hardware design document (including advanced feature section).
Advanced Feature Development and Router Interoperation	2 weeks effective (*)	Sun 10-Jan-2010	1. tar.gz file of your working directory including src and verif. (but no dump files, please!) 2. Updated Hardware Design Document with your added functionality.

(*) You are expected to commit the equivalent of one in-term week worth of work to this module over the Christmas/New-Year vacation. No less than 10 Hours between the 3rd of December, 2009 and the deadline 10th of January, 2010.